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Re:The Newest Way To Game Twitter - Fake Followers by timf on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @11:06AM (#485872)
And to save you some time: this is a non-story or at least a mischaracterized one.

At this link he says the follower surges on the accounts in question are from Twitter's new "suggested people to follow" page at signup time.

Re:The Newest Way To Game Twitter - Fake Followers by dhimes on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @12:06PM (#485936)
That's how I started following Penn Jillette. On the other hand, I have my profile pic uploaded.